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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
5
A bold advertisement touts deep discounts on indigo prints and linens with prices like 434¢ for prints, 16c to 9c for various linens, and heavy markdowns in the cloak and suit department. It promotes numerous tailored suits and lawn outfits at reduced rates, highlighting substantial savings and economy.
Surplus summer goods slash prices with many items under one dollar. Embroidered shirt waists lace trimmed gowns muslin briefs and sunbonnets offered. skirts dresses and silks on sale. Center table specials include odds ends at half price and robes one third former price while stock lasts.
A bold sale touts low prices on yard wide scrim curtains wall paper ingrain and axminster carpets along with lace curtains window shades porch screens hammocks and rugs. The ad promises special clearance pricing across all items and challenges competitors on quality and value.
Alison Bell visits Logansport Friday. Various residents visit kin in Peru Lincoln and Logansport. Mrs I N Holman hosts relatives. Miss Grace Patterson from Lincoln visits with sister Mrs Etta Codwell. Widespread social news includes neighbors, illness, home improvements, and Theatre School events. Community updates note visitors from Kokomo and Logansport, a Childrens Day at Baptist church, and upcoming Fourth of July plans with local trains to Kokomo for viewing monuments.
Tomorrow at the department store a real worth sale features ladies vici kid blacher shoes with patent tips at 89c, Misses white canvas oxfords 1.89, men's vici kid or box calf shoes 79c, and Misses vici kid shoes 1.00. Baby shoes in all sizes and colors are included.
Delivers deep underpriced goods including lace curtain stretchers 65¢ and 1.38 brass pin set, padded sleeve ironing boards 19c, postal cards 2 for 1c, poison fly paper 3 large sheets 5c, full nickel alarm clock 59c, granite kettles and pans from 38c to 83c, picture wire 3c per 25 feet.
O M Shirley trustee of Jackson Township announces office days every Tuesday at his residence and Sundays at Galveston Drug Co drug store in Galveston Indiana. He states duties and procedures for inquiries and notices related to trust matters.
The fragmentary column mentions Galvaston Cave Co and McCoy's canned goods, a Saturday night Liccola event, and Interurban cars delayed by power shortages. It advertises five cottages and six building lots for sale. It records visits by C F Thomas Wm Douglas and families from Logansport, noting Mr. Douglas is 92, and reports Frev Boase's Sunday school class forming a society with officers Frank Shepherd Frank Graham Glen Loop and Rev Boase.
A 1907 letter from Henson Garrett to grandparents in Galveston shares birthday gifts including a Kodak and initials pin, and describes a Sunday school picnic in Los Angeles with foods, a treasure hunt, and ice cream from two big freezers. He notes he turned 16 on June 11.
A Cedar Grove man praises Electric Bitters after suffering liver and kidney troubles. He writes that one bottle gave relief and three bottles completed the cure, calling it the best remedy for stomach liver and kidney issues available from Galveston Drug Co for 50 cents.
Geo McCoy and John Miler visited Kokomo on Tuesday. S P Bevincron and Mr Hubb of Logansport promoted the State Anti Cigar ette Society in Galveston Sunday. A H Thomas and Mrs Frances Daggett laid cement walks on Griffith Street. Val Cunningham of Kokomo visited his ill mother at Mrs Albert Reece’s home west of town. Galveston Odd Fellows invite Logansport Odd Fellows for degree work next Saturday with a banquet after. Prof Herschel Eaglebarger of Tippecanoe lost his life in the St Joseph river at South Bend June 16 while attempting to rescue a boy, body found June 22 and buried June 23. He was 25 and taught at South Bend Business College.
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